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Riss in mundtuirc
prose
Middle Irish adaptation of episodes from the Theban Cycle, drawing on Statius and Ovid. It relates a number of unfortunate events which transpired after Vulcan forged a necklace for Harmonia.
Middle IrishOedipusAmphiaraus
Ro loiscit na láma-sa
verse
4 st.
beg. Ro loiscit na láma-sa
Oisín mac Finn
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Oisín mac Finn
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)
A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature
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Four quatrains ascribed to Oisín in his old age.
Middle IrishEarly Irish lyrics
Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind
verse
7 st.
beg. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind
A poem of at least seven stanzas attributed to Cú Chulainn or Conchobar mac Nessa.
Old Irish
Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend
verse
1 st.
beg. Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend
A single quatrain alluding to a story about the death of Finn mac Cumaill.
Early Middle IrishFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failgeverse
3 st.
beg. Nímutanic ó thír thend
Finn mac Cumaill
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Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían
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Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge (Róiriu i nUíb Failge).
Middle IrishdinnshenchasRóiriu (Uí Failge)
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Muiredaigverse
prose
beg. Fail folach ós grían cen gái
Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in in Uí Muiredaig (Róiriu i nUíb Muiredaig)
Middle IrishdinnshenchasRóiriu in Uí Muiredaig
Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis
prose
Modern Irish prose tale in which Mis, following the death of her father Dáire, becomes a deranged woman in the wilderness of Slíab Mis and is gradually restored to sanity and to the civilised world through encounters with Dub Ruis (mod. Dubh Rois), harpist to the king of Munster (Feidlimid mac Crimthainn). Dub Ruis employs music, cooked food, a bath and ultimately, sex, to bring about her healing and goes on to marry her. In the two known manuscript copies of the text, the tale serves to introduce an elegiac poem for a patron named Dubh Rois.
Modern IrishFeidlimid mac CrimthainnDub RuisMis
Sáerchlanna Érenn uile
verse
12 st.
A syllabic poem incorporated in the two Middle Irish recensions of the saga concerning the revolt of the aithech-thúatha, Bruiden Meic Da Réo and Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait. It consists of twelve stanzas.
Middle Irish
Saltair na Muice
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Legend of Cáenchomrach, bishop of Clonmacnoise, and his dealings with an underwater monastery located in Lough Ree after two of its monks were expelled in the shape of swine and were (accidentally) killed in a hunting trip by two clerics, Éogan and Écertach.
Middle Irishunderwater monasteriesabstinenceClúain Moccu Nóis ... ClonmacnoiseLoch Rí ... Lough ReeCaínchomrac ... abbot of LouthMaundy ThursdaySliab LiatromaÉogan mac ÁeducáinÉcertach mac Áeducáin
Sanas Cormaic/Gaire
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A brief story about Néde and Caier under the entry for ‘Gaire’ in Sanas Cormaic.
Middle IrishsatireCaierNéde
Sanas Cormaic/Mug Éme
prose
beg. Mug Éme
A narrative included in the entry for Mug Éme in Sanas Cormaic
Sanas Cormaic
Sanas Cormaic/Rincneprose
beg. Rin(g)cne quasi quinque
Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.
Middle IrishFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)Lugaid Mac ConFerchess mac Commáin
Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait
prose
The second of two Middle Irish recensions, the other being Bruiden Meic Da Réo, which recount how in early Ireland, the vassal peoples (aithech-thúatha) rebelled and decimated the leading noble families. This is Thurneysen's ‘Recension I’, except for the modernised text in the Edinburgh MS, which he describes as ‘Recension III’.
Late Middle IrishFíachu FindfholaidTúathal Techtmar
Scél ar mnái tsagairt ar fagail báis dí
prose
Irish anecdote about the burial of a priest's wife.
Early Modern IrishBurial of a priest's wife
Scél asa mberar co mbad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán ocus aní dia fíl aided Fothaid Airgdig
prose
AidedFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)Mongán mac FíachnaiFothad Airctech (Airgtech)Forgoll ... poet
Scél for mírbuil Póil
prose
Short medieval Irish legend on the passion of St Paul, with an account of his decapitation and miraculous recapitation (recovery of his head). It is similar to the version told in the Irish homily Páis Petair ocus Póil
Irish languagePaul the Apostle (Saul of Tarsus)
Scél in dá lenab
prose
A short medieval Irish story, being an adaptation of the legend known the ‘Jew of Bourges’, which is itself a localised version of the ‘legend of the two infants’. Two children, one Christian and the other Jewish, are visiting a Christian temple together, in the course of which the Jewish boy learns about Jesus, the Crucifixion and the Virgin Mary, and partakes of consecrated bread. When the latter comes home, he is castigated for this by his father, who throws his son into a burning furnace. A miracle is witnessed the following day, when the child proves to be alive and well again, having received Mary’s protection, and declares himself to be a fosterson of hers. The boy’s parents convert to Christianity. Like many of the French versions of this narrative, the Irish story is set in France.
Irish languagetranslations and adaptationsminor Irish prose talesconversion of Jews to ChristianityMary ... mother of Jesusmiracles performed after a saint’s lifetime
Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic
Scél na Fír Flathaprose
Late Middle Irish
Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic
prose
Late Middle Irish
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